del@wuphys.UUCP (Dave de Lake) (02/02/85)
I finished my undergraduate degree just last month and decided, since I don't have to waste time memorizing crap for a while, I might as well do something educational, interesting, and fun. I started to read some old classics that everyone I know read in high school or before... I started with 1984 the first night and Brave_New_World the second, two "timeless" classics, but a bit depressing if read without a break!!! I went on to read a Steinbeck novel, To_A_God_Unknown, one of the most fantastic and thoughtful treatments of life and some aspects of Christianity that I have ever seen. I then read M. Twain's Connecticut_Yankee and am now on Roughing_It which is utterly hilarious. Lets here it for classics and forget about PORN!!!!!!!! Dave @Compton Sanitarium
wel@petrus.UUCP (02/04/85)
> I started to read some old classics that everyone I know read > in high school or before... del@wuphys has a wonderful idea! After "Roughing It", try "Life on the Mississippi" and "The Innocents Abroad". Then try some Kipling: I loved "Kim" when young, and still do. For humor, try Kipling's short story "The Village that Voted that the Earth was Flat". Beyond these, does anyone else feel Kipling's science fiction has been undeservedly ignored?